Lo que nos hizo diferentes desde el inicio fue combinar la precisión de la ingeniería con la calidez de un espacio humano. Operamos con estructura técnica, pero también con una narrativa estética y emocional donde el café, el arte y las conversaciones conviven de forma natural.

Este local nace de la idea de sus dos fundadores obsesionados con sus doce gatos para atraer una comunidad gatuna consciente y promover el apoyo a todos los gatitos vulnerables en el ambiente. ¿Qué mejor que el motivo sea reunirse para disfrutar un buen café y la fascinación por estos seres?

Laut Communal Coffee nació después de la pandemia como un negocio familiar con una intención clara desde el inicio: responder a una necesidad real en la zona, donde no existía una oferta consolidada de café de especialidad, panadería francesa y desayunos.

Si IRI Barra de Café y Crochet fuera una ciudad, sería Vancouver. Es un lugar donde conviven muchas culturas, así como en nuestros granos de café hay distintos orígenes y perfiles. Además, es una ciudad llena de arte y creatividad, algo que también vivimos en cada detalle de IRI.

This project was born from intuition, complicity, and the desire to build something without having all the answers. It does not come from experience, but from conviction, constant learning, and the desire to create a space with its own identity, while also growing as people ourselves.

More than a specific reference, what guides us is an idea: taking the pressure out of coffee. Returning to what’s essential, to what happens around a cup; to people, their routines, and their pauses. You shouldn’t need to know about coffee to enjoy it, just arrive and give yourself that moment.

We enjoy the time we share with those who stop by for coffee; it takes us out of our own world and into someone else’s. We believe in restoring hospitality, a value that has been fading and urgently needs to be reclaimed.

With the intention of playing with how we perceive the passage of time, we decided to repeat the exercise we did in Bloodlust (our previous project): inviting builders from Coatepec, Veracruz, Jaime Zuverza, and creating a surreal piano bar, inviting local artists and designers to complete the experience.

Vínculo was born from the desire to create a refuge in the midst of routine, a place where specialty coffee becomes the meeting point for sharing, learning, and building community. More than customers, we seek relationships that turn every visit into a meaningful and personal experience.

The truth is that at the beginning we didn't have everything figured out –money, structure, time– but we stopped waiting for ideal conditions and started making La Matadora work with what we did have: perseverance.

It had been a long time since Camberwell had a dedicated bookshop, and one day it popped into my mind. So, from the start I already knew many people in the local area, we already had a strong relationship of trust in the community that was so important to get the business off the ground.

We're greatly inspired by projects that manage to build identity from simplicity. Places where each element seems small on its own, but together they create something truly authentic. That coherence is something we constantly strive for.